188 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. = = = - 
When Charpentier came to overhaul the collection after 
Schiffermuller’s death he evidently did not know who ‘‘M. P.” 
was, for he uses the initials in writing of them, and not the full 
name. It is to be inferred from this that the whereabouts of 
‘“‘M. P.’s”’ specimens when they could have’ been compared with 
Hubner’s figures was not known, and we are thus reduced to the 
original description. ; 
Schiffermuller arranged his Tortrices in groups according to 
colour, and asperana is put amongst those which are ‘‘ cinerez,”’ 
which I take it from the species included would mean grey or 
brownish grey. His description of asperana is ‘‘ grey, with 
variegated roughened wings,” that is all! 
Schiffermuller may have described a form of literana ; on the 
other hand his specimen may have been some other species 
which was grey and had roughened wings, such as a form of 
Peronea hastiana, P. sponsana, or P. niveana. The only grey 
examples I have seen are four in the collection of Mr. R. South ; 
but Barrett writes (‘ Brit. Lep.,’ x, p. 217) of one taken in Suffolk 
at Bungay by a lady, “ grey white with the usual abundant black 
dotting, but no trace whatever of green.” 
Certain writers deal with ab. asperana, and I give the 
citations for what they may be worth, which, I fear, is very 
little: Charpentier, ‘Zins. Wick.,’ p. 74 (1821); Hubner, ‘ Verz.,” 
p- 386, No. 8747 (1826) ; ‘ Treitsche,’ viii, p. 166 (1835) ; Frey, 
‘Lep. Schweiz.,’ p. 284 (1880) ; Snellen, ‘ Vlinders,’ viii, p. 185 
(1882); Kennel, ‘ Pal. Tort.,’ p. 83 (1908); Wagner, ‘ Lep. Cat.,’ 
par. x, p. 69 (1912). 
Hubner in ‘ Verz.’ (1826) says Treweriana (= niveana) and 
asperana, Schiff. = squamalana, Hub., ‘Tort.,’ 98, 94 and 95, but 
in his copy of ‘ Schiffermiller,’ now in the Walsingham Library 
—in which in bis own handwriting is placed opposite all the 
species he figures in his work the numbers of each figure— 
asperana is without a number. 
Herrich Schaffer says of asperana in ‘ Schmett v. Hur.,’ 
p. 152: ‘ There is a good specimen in Schiffermuller’s Collection 
which resembles Hiibner’s fig. 94,’ but this figure is not pure 
grey, but has bright green mixed with the grey. As there was 
no specimen when Charpentier saw the collection in 1821 it is 
evident it was placed there after that date. 
Herrich Schaffer figures two grey forms as asperana (‘Tort.,’ 
pl. i, figs. 2 and 8). Fig. 2 represents a form with a number 
of black markings; fig.3 a grey form, apart from colour identical 
with ab. squamana, Fab. 
Abs» flavana, n. ab. 
I give this name to a form with the ground-colour of the 
superiors brownish buff. It has certain of the black dots that 
are common to so many of the literana forms, and, except for the 
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